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The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.

~George Packer

Topics: Best Example Foreign Foreign Policy Iran Obama Policy Success

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Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.

~George Packer

Topics: Almost American Basis Elect Foreign Foreign Policy Never Policy Presidents

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I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'

~George Packer

Topics: Day Did Go Key Much Reading Sites Spend Surfing Time Today Too Too Much Too Much Time Web Whole Wonder You E-Mail

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That's why I'm not on Twitter and don't have an iPhone. It's not because I'm superior to it: it's because I would be a slave to it, and I don't want that to happen.

~George Packer

Topics: Because Happen Iphone Slave Superior Twitter Want Why Would

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I need to protect myself from my own addictive impulse.

~George Packer

Topics: Addictive Impulse My Own Myself Need Own Protect

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The war in Afghanistan is not of a peace with the rest of Obama's worldview. It's a holdover from the era that his election was supposed to bring to a close.

~George Packer

Topics: Afghanistan Bring Close Election Era His Obama Peace Rest Supposed War Worldview

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The difference between a reporter, a newspaper columnist, a paid speaker, a television personality, a radio talk show host, a blogger, a movie producer, a publicist, and a political strategist, is growing less - and not more - distinct.

~George Packer

Topics: Between Columnist Difference Distinct Growing Host Less More Movie Newspaper Paid Personality Political Producer Publicist Radio Reporter Show Speaker Talk Talk Show Television

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I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'

~George Packer

Topics: About Africa Began Book Came Carpenter Few My Time Out Time Village Waiting Worked Writing Wrote Years

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The Iraq war was always a long shot. But it was made immeasurably longer by its principal architects in Washington, including Douglas Feith, who ignored expert advice, reserved most of their effort for fighting each other in ideological battles, and regarded the Iraqi people as an afterthought.

~George Packer

Topics: Advice Always Architects Battles Douglas Each Effort Expert Fighting Ideological Ignored Including Iraq Iraq War Iraqi Iraqi People Long Longer Made Most Other People Principal Regarded Reserved Shot War Washington Who

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Walmart's period of explosive growth coincided with decades of wage stagnation and deindustrialization. By applying relentless downward pressure on prices and wages, the company came to dominate both consumer spending and employment in small towns and rural areas across the middle of the country.

~George Packer

Topics: Across Applying Area Both Came Company Consumer Country Decades Dominate Downward Employment Explosive Growth Middle Period Pressure Prices Relentless Rural Rural Areas Small Small Towns Spending Stagnation Towns Wage Wages Walmart

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: August 13th, 1960

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